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BROOKFIELD -- The town's effort to remove a floating mass of garbage trapped in a bend of the Still River has been stymied by a landowner's refusal to give access to the riverbank.

The mass of bottles, barrels, paper and other debris began building this spring when a large tree fell into the water at a spot where the river bends close to Grays Bridge Road, creating a health hazard as well as an obstacle to kayakers and canoeists.